Talent, as a word therefore, followed a familiar path, one that will have been similar - Old English excluded - for “talento”, the Spanish for talent. Special natural ability, capacity for success or achievement - talent possesses subtleties of meaning, but these do not presuppose that talent equates to earning loads of money. How many of you know of Celia Muñoz, the ventriloquist winner of the 2021 ’Got Talent España’, the Spanish version of ‘Britain’s Got Talent’? Messi, it’s fair to say, has exploited his fabulous natural talent for all it’s worth, which is a great deal. That’s where that natural talent really lies.

Source: Forbes December 17, 2021 11:16 UTC